Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of community-recruited and referred participants and community-recruited participants who did and did not refer
| Community-recruited participants | Referred participants | Test statistic | p value | Participants eligible to refer but did not | Participants eligible to refer and did | Test statistic | p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 1,384 | n = 169 | n = 555 | n = 64 | |||||
| Age | 19.99 | < 0.001 | 5.32 | 0.070 | ||||
| ≤30 | 488 (35 %) | 31 (18 %) | 225 (41 %) | 17 (27 %) | ||||
| 31–45 | 490 (35 %) | 80 (47 %) | 187 (34 %) | 24 (38 %) | ||||
| ≥46 | 406 (29 %) | 58 (34 %) | 143 (26 %) | 23 (36 %) | ||||
| Ethnicity | 5.93 | 0.015 | 1.65 | 0.199 | ||||
| Latino or of hispanic origin | 114 (8 %) | 5 (3 %) | 53 (10 %) | 3 (5 %) | ||||
| Sexual orientation | 2.29 | 0.317 | 1.95 | 0.377 | ||||
| Exclusively homosexual/gay | 408 (30 %) | 51 (31 %) | 184 (34 %) | 24 (38 %) | ||||
| Exclusively bisexual | 380 (28 %) | 53 (33 %) | 139 (25 %) | 11 (17 %) | ||||
| Other | 570 (42 %) | 59 (36 %) | 224 (41 %) | 28 (44 %) | ||||
| Gender identity | 0.0019a | 0.002 | 0.012a | 0.296 | ||||
| Male | 1298 (94 %) | 152 (90 %) | 518 (93 %) | 61 (95 %) | ||||
| Female | 7 (1 %) | 1 (1 %) | 4 (1 %) | 1 (2 %) | ||||
| Transgender | 27 (2 %) | 6 (4 %) | 14 (3 %) | 2 (3 %) | ||||
| Other | 52 (4 %) | 10 (16 %) | 19 (3 %) | 0 (0 %) | ||||
| High school education equivalent or less | 699 (51 %) | 118 (70 %) | 22.45 | < 0.001 | 276 (50 %) | 44 (69 %) | 8.30 | 0.004 |
| Lack stable housing at enrollment | 130 (9 %) | 18 (11 %) | 0.28 | 0.599 | 47 (8 %) | 11 (17 %) | 5.13 | 0.023 |
| Household income | 22.29 | < 0.001 | 13.17 | 0.001 | ||||
| Under $20,000 | 795 (58 %) | 125 (74 %) | 295 (54 %) | 49 (77 %) | ||||
| $20,000–39,999 | 319 (23 %) | 35 (21 %) | 128 (24 %) | 11 (17 %) | ||||
| $40,000+ | 255 (19 %) | 9 (5 %) | 121 (22 %) | 4 (6 %) | ||||
| Currently not working | 936 (68 %) | 135 (80 %) | 10.48 | 0.001 | 364 (66 %) | 53 (83 %) | 7.65 | 0.006 |
| Incarcerated in last 6 months | 798 (59 %) | 116 (71 %) | 8.67 | 0.003 | 308 (57 %) | 41 (64 %) | 1.29 | 0.255 |
| Ever participated in research | 411 (30 %) | 32 (20 %) | 8.07 | 0.004 | 142 (26 %) | 17 (27 %) | 0.02 | 0.880 |
| HIV status at baseline of study | ||||||||
| Refused testing/unknown | 35 (3 %) | 3 (2 %) | 71.44 | < 0.001 | 0 (0 %) | 1 (2 %) | 0.0037 | 0.025 |
| HIV-negative | 1082 (78 %) | 85 (50 %) | 387 (70 %) | 38 (59 %) | ||||
| HIV-positive | 266 (19 %) | 81 (48 %) | 168 (30 %) | 25 (39 %) | ||||
a
Fisher’s exact test